Vi hittade oss en liten bög!

Ahh, Surfers Paradise. Imagine the perfect holiday resort, and times that by about 100 and u get Surfers paradise! Good beach, good shopping and good clubs. :) And the shops r open til late so we can shop when its dark! its all very exciting.. :P Plus theres none of the seedy guys that u get in Greece/Turkey/Spain. Its excellent. We've been here for two nights now and are leaving tomorrow (unfortunately). We were too tired to go out on our first night here but made up for it last night. And we met the cutest little gay guy ever! Ive never met anyone so homosexual in my entire life! haha. Today we're off to do some serious shopping. The weather is perfect, cus its cloudy so it doesnt feel like we're wasting prescious sunbaking time. and tonight we're heading out for a big night out before we have to leave tomorrow morning.

Our extremely gay new friend

Nimbin

Hej Ebbis! Har ar en liten bild till dig! Onskar att du hade kunnat vara med och simma i vagorna med mej! Skrev ett meddelande i sanden men det gick nog inte att se ifran Sverige... Saknar dej!Yesterday, after spending almost a whole week lying on the beach doing nothing, we decided to rora pa flasket and walk up to the lighthouse on the hill. It took us two hours to walk up there (as we walked through a "rainforest" walk) and about an hour to get back. We are both a bit sore today but it was totally worth it. We got to see wild dolphins, sea turtles and sting rays. And when we went swimming we were only about 100 m away from the dolphins! :D (the little black thing to the right in the photo is me, and the blurry black dot in the background is a dolphin) i think its crystal clear, but thought i'd point it out for you just in case.. :P Today we went to Nimbin on a little day tour. We skipped the car rental and went on a bus that also stopped at a waterhole and for an afternoon bbq in a park. It was great. Nimbin was very.. interesting. We only stayed in the town for an hour but that was enough to see it all. It really was a little hippie town. Apparently thats where all the hippies settled down in the 70's for a more laid back lifestyle (and because of the good climate for growing weed). hehe we saw hippies everywhere and about 99 per cent of them were trying to sell us marijuana. The town is known for its hasch brownies and cookies. Both Josefin and I felt really homesick the day before yesterday but after the last two days it feels a lot better. We only have 2,5 weeks left in the country so we've realised that we really have to make the most of it now!

The world really isnt that big after all...

The last couple of days we've been bumping into the same people everywhere! We got a bit freaked out when our roomie from Melbourne walked past us on the street here in Byron Bay, just after seeing one of our other isreali friends on Bondi Beach, Sydney. And the same night we met our roomies from Sydney at a night club here in Byron... It seems like everyone is doing the same trip at the same time - or is the world just not that big a place after all..? Or maybe we've just shared rooms with way too many people... hmm..

Byron Bay

Time really flies.. we got to byron bay last sunday (a week ago tomorrow) and after tonight we're off to a new destination - Nimbin.

So what have we done in Byron bay? well.. we started off with sleeping on the pavement the night of our arrival, as we arrived at 3 o'clock in the morning and all the receptions were closed. (one of the lowest points of my life) :P and ended up having to walk around to about 4 different motels and hostels in the morning trying to find one with vacancy... not exactly what we wanted to do after a 15 hour long bus trip from Sydney... But after that we've basically been in heaven. We live right next to the beach and spend most of our time soaking up as much sun as our skin can handle. the weather has been perfect. around 27 degrees every day and clear blue sky :). We're getting a bit tired of sharing a room with other people though. i could have killed our room mates when they stumbled in to our room at 5 AND 6 o'clock one morning and turned the light on! So our plan now is to rent a car for a day and drive to Nimbin - Australias little hippie town. After that we're off to Surfer's paradise and Brisbane. It feels a bit sad to think that we only have about a month left (less even!) but i think it'll feel good to come home too.. at least for a day or two....

Sydney

Our trip has finally begun! After 15 hours on a bus from Melbourne to Sydney we went for a walk down Darling harbour and to the Opera house. After that we attempted to take a short power nap before heading our for some clubbing.. but passed out completely at 6.30 and woke up 13 hrs later... So the next day we were fit for fight for some serious sightseeing and headed out before noon (!) We went on a 1.30 hour cruise in the harbour and stopped at a little beach on the other side of the water, with a really nice view of the city. At night we put on our skimpy black dresses and hit the bars. We started the night at a cosy bar with a live band not far from our hostel and ended up in the red light district at Kings Cross... I have never seen so many stripclubs in one place in my entire life.. (haven't been to amsterdam yet) We got dragged into a couple of them but managed to find us some normal clubs too... But it was some good sightseeing.. we saw everything from strippers and prostitutes to different kinds of homosexuals and transvestites :D

After that we walked through the whole city in our high heels back to the hostel and got a couple of hours of sleep before heading out to bondi beach today... except we never got there. We ended up philosophising in hyde park instead. We'll give it a new attempt tomorrow :)

Josefin's 21st

Last Thursday was Josefin's 21st b-day. And turning 21 here is a BIG thing. The Clark's took us out for dinner at a realy nice italian restaurant on southbank, overlooking the river. When we arrived they had already ordered in champagne and after dinner they had organised for the waitors to come in with a big mud cake, singing happy b-day to her. :)
After the restaurant they dropped us home to Josefin's surprise party. She really had no clue. So she was shocked to find all our housemates gathered in the kitchen surrounded by candles and discolights singing happy b-day and handing her a bottle of champage! The plan after that was to go out to St. Kilda to continue the celebrations there, but after all the booze they had bought for our "pre-drinks" we ended up just partying at home and passed out happy and safe in our own beds :)

The Great Ocean Road

Today is our last night in Melbourne before we start our trip up the Coast. Yesterday Sarah took us for a drive along the Great Ocean Road for some sightseeing before stopping at her relatives' house in Camperdown. We left around mid-day and stopped for lunch in Lorne which is a little surftown about 2-3 hrs from Melbourne and saw a couple of my old friends cruise past in Karas car. And freakishly enough we bumped into her again on the freeway on our way back to Melbourne today. She was abit shocked when my head popped out of the window of the car next to hers... I guess the world isn't such a big place after all.. Anyway, we got to the twelve apostles just in time for the sunset (and we weren't the only ones.. i don't think ive seen so many japanese tourists in my entire life) The rest of the night we spent bumming in front of the TV in Camperdown, watching the searh for the next pussy cat doll :P. Tonight we're repacking our bags and leaving about two thirds of our stuff at Sarah's. We've decided to give the whole backpacking thing a shot after all.. :P We'll see how good friends I am with my back after carrying a backpack around half of Australia.. But at least we'll be renting a car for our way back from Cairns. I think Sarah is happy she's not coming with us. We educated her with enough Swede-music to keep her traumatised for life!

Long time no post...

Not much has happened since our last blog post. We have been living a pretty basic day-to-day life here in Melbourne and have even gotten ourselves a job. We mingle for money! hehe. we work as promoters for a big club in the city and work the mailing list there on saturday and monday nights. which basically means we get payed for talking to people and get free drinks all night(!) With only about 7 weeks left before we leave for L.A. we have decided on a date for our trip up the east coast. we leave on the 9th of March and are planning to travel for a month, which leaves us with a week in Melbourne before we fly to America. The weather is still hot thanks to the global warming :) and we have been going to the beach at least once a week.
I have finally picked up the camera cord from Sarah's house so if everything works there should be a new slide up here today! And there will be more interesting blog entries up here as soon as we start the "real" trip ;). So for now you're just gonna have to settle for some pics!

our vicious circle...

After two weeks of constant drinking and shoppping (aka spending money) we again find ourselves on chapel st! its like a drug. we just cant quit. last night was a white one however. we had our second jewish fest, and god did we eat!! after living with the israelis and irish for over a week now we're actually starting to like it. and we've even gotten used to sharing that broken bed of ours. last night was one of the irish guys' b-day. josefin and i got him a cake and a very interesting present.. lets just say we wont be there when he tries it..... on sunday they are organising a fancy dress party. we havent decided on what to dress up as yet.. but we're thinking about going for the stereotypical swedish look... (not the slutty one though!)
sheisse.. i just realised i have to hurry up if im gonna have time to shop before kara comes and picks us up for a night out in st. kilda! i have so many photos to put up here.. but i clever as i am, i left the cord at sarah's house... but ill put them up as son as i get it back!
hasta la vista

Finally in Australia!

Today is Friday which means we've already been here for a week. The reason we haven't posted any blog entries yet is because we've been busy "house hunting". We did that, without exaggerating, everyday, all day, for 4 days. but the effort finally paid off and three days ago we found a place to stay. So now we're living with a couple of irish guys not far from the city. Luckily we had a place to stay in the meantime - with the Clark family! Thank you so much for having us! Especially Nola who even took us to Healesville Sanctuary for some quality sightseeing before driving us to our new house. ! :D (I took that picture myself!! *proud* haha but the koalas didnt put up much of a show for us unfortunately..)
At 11 o'clock tonight the Israeli owners of the house are throwing us a big jewish dinner *scared*. We haven't really had time to get to know them yet as we have been going out every night since we moved in. Kara, an old friend from when i used to live here, has been our personal guide, taking us out to a couple of nice bars. And our plan is to leave for a better place in a week (just off an awesome shopping street) so we'll see how much they'll like us after we tell them that... hmm.. anyhoo, Josefin is getting restless again so i'm gonna write more later. but at least now u know we're still alive.. :)